Multi-million-dollar facial recognition businesses make tools that might be racist, senators say.
Sen. Ed Markey calls on government agencies to cease using Clearview technology, as well as any other facial recognition tool, saying it threatens Black and ethnic minority communities.A trio of Senators are calling on federal agencies to stop using facial recognition technology built by Clearview AI, a Peter Thiel-backed surveillance business valued at $130 million.
“Additionally, this technology poses unique threats to Black communities, other communities of color and immigrant communities,” the officials wrote, talking about general facial recognition tech. They cited a government study that found Black, Brown and Asian individuals were up to 100 times more likely to be misidentified than white male faces. There have been a handful of cases where Black citizens were wrongfully arrested because of a false facial recognition match.
The lawmakers last year put forward a bill, the Facial Recognition and Biometric Technology Moratorium Act, which would ban the use of facial recognition by federal agencies or any government official. Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren also backed the bill. “According to the Innocence Project, 70% of wrongful convictions result from eyewitness lineups. Accurate facial recognition technology like Clearview AI is able to help create a world of bias-free policing. As a person of mixed race, this is highly important to me.
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